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Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea
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  1. Series Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface and Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. The Sociology of Late Industrialization
  9. 2. The Colonial Origins of Neofamilism
  10. 3. The State and Tradition
  11. 4. Hollowing Out Bureaucracy
  12. 5. Civil Society and Democratization
  13. 6. Daily Practice of Neofamilism
  14. 7. The 1997 Financial Crisis
  15. Conclusion
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index

Backcover: Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea by Yong-Chool Ha. South Korea’s rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebˇol (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation’s economy. Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea considers how a country can progress economically while relying on traditional social structures that usually fragment political and economic vitality. Drawing on interviews with bureaucrats in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry as well as workers and others, Yong-Chool Ha demonstrates how the state propelled industrialization by using kinship networks to channel investments and capital into chaebˇol corporations. What Ha calls neofamilism was the central force behind South Korea’s economic transformation as the state used preindustrial social patterns to facilitate industrialization. His account of bureaucracy, democratization, and the middle class challenges assumptions about the universal outcomes of industrialization. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the social dynamics of the state and business in South Korea. Uk Heo, coauthor of The Evolution of the South Korea–United States Alliance. This brilliant study of familial and local ties as the central constituent of state-business-society relations will be enlightening for anyone interested in development, democratization, and postcolonial politics. It makes a landmark contribution to the comparative studies of industrialization and its spatiotemporal unevenness. Hyun Ok Park, author of The Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea. Analyzes how neofamilism was forged out of the crucible of colonialism and late-industrialization and how this amalgam of regional, kinship, and school ties has underpinned Korean democratization and state-business relations. Christopher Ansell, author of The Protected State. Yong-Chool Ha is Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Social Science at the University of Washington. He is editor of International Impact of Colonial Rule in Korea. Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Cover design: Mindy Basinger Hill. Cover illustration: Apgujeong-dong, Seoul, 1978. Photo by Min-jo Jeon.

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